Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYFor a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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